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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 18, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Brighton III/IV
Session Chair:
Javier Ortensi
Alternate Chair:
Shoichiro OKITA
Session Organizer:
John D. Bess
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Preliminary Experiment in a Graphite-Moderated Core to Avoid Full Mock-Up Experiment for the Future First Commercial HTGR
S. Okita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Fukaya (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Sakon (Kindai Univ.), T. Sano (Kindai Univ.), Y. Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), H. Unesaki (Kyoto Univ.)
Paper
Attachment — Presenter's biography
Sockeye Validation Support Using the SPHERE Facility
Joshua Hansel (INL), Jeremy Hartvigsen (INL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Bo Feng (ANL)
Validation of Serpent 2 Depletion Calculations Against Experimental Data from the Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Irradiation Campaign
Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Attachment — Short Biography
Beta-Ray-Bremsstrahlung Contribution to the Delayed-Photoneutron Group for Heavy Water Reactor
Yanuar Ady Setiawan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Hemantika Sengar (Amity Univ., Noida), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
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